Prince Edward's Jig

Prince Edward's Jig is an English Country Dance. It was published by Thompson in 1757 in The Dancing Master, 11th ed., London. It was interpreted by Charles Bolton (website) in 1989 and published in Retreads Vol.4. Originally a Triple Minor this version is a proper 3 Couple Longways dance. In this dance the couples are permuted by: 231. The minor set lasts 32 bars.

Playford writes:
First Cu. foot it twice cast off 2 Cu. and cross up to the top gallop down and up and cast off and right and left

Originally a triple minor.

The animation plays at 120 counts per minute normally, but the first time through the set the dance will often be slowed down so people can learn the moves more readily. Men are drawn as rectangles, women as ellipses. Each couple is drawn in its own color, however the border of each dancer indicates what role they currently play so the border color may change each time through the minor set.

The dances of Charles Bolton (including interpretations like this one) are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license by the CDSS Online Library.
An online description of the dance may be found here.

A11-21s+2s set
3-41s cast down as 2s lead up
5-61s+3s set
7-81s cast down as 3s lead up
A21-41s cross, go up outside as 3s set and lead down
5-81s cross, go up outside as 2s set and lead down
B11-51s, followed by others, give hands and slip down
6-8Slip up, 3s cast down to 2nd place, 2s at top, 1s bottom, 2s face, 1s face 3s
B21-8Six changes of a grand chain (rights and lefts back to place)

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The dance itself is out of copyright, and is in the public domain. The interpretation is copyright © 1989 by Charles Bolton. And is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license. My visualization of this dance is copyright © 2021 by George W. Williams V and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA license.

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